News - Great Meadows Foundation

May 29, 2018

FOCUS ON FOUR OF THE APRIL 2018 GRANTEES:

BUD DORSEY With the support of a Great Meadows Foundation Professional Development Grant, Louisville artist Bud Dorsey plans to travel to Senegal to visit museums, meet with artists and institutional directors he has connected with, and give a talk about his work at the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar. He will also travel to the city of Saint Louis, exploring the vestiges of the days when that city was France’s colonial capital in […]

May 29, 2018

Great Meadows Foundation Partners with Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency

GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION is pleased to announce that Louisville artist Brianna Harlan has been selected as a summer Artist-in-Residence at the Ox-Bow, School of Art & Artists’ Residency. Situated in Saugatuck, Michigan, Ox-Bow’s summer artist-in-residence program offers artists at various stages in their career, the time, space, and community to encourage growth and experimentation in their practice. Brianna Harlan majored in art at Hanover College in Southern Indiana, graduating in 2015. An artist who is […]

May 29, 2018

Julie Leidner is first Kentucky artist selected for Great Meadows Foundation’s partnership with Residency Unlimited

GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION is pleased to announce a collaboration with RESIDENCY UNLIMITED (RU). An annual planned collaboration, this residency will allow a regional artist—each year chosen from a different part of Kentucky—to spend three months working at Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York, supported by Great Meadows Foundation. This year, from a shortlist nominated by Louisville curators, RU Program Director Boshko Boskovic visited six artists and selected JULIE LEIDNER as Great Meadows Foundation’s inaugural resident. […]

May 29, 2018

Artist Professional Development Grant Awards April 2018

Great Meadows Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 13 grants to artists in the Kentucky region through the 7th round of the Artist Professional Development Grants. These grants will enable recipients to travel to visit major conferences, exhibitions, and artist residencies and to connect with professionals in the field whose expertise can help them develop their critical practice. Celebrating over $300,000.- in grants to Kentucky artists since June 2016 Since its inception in […]